Monthly Archives: July 2008

OK, even though I really love the power of tagging things and think *auto tagging* will quickly becoming a cornerstone of how the world will effectively managing the maelstrom of web content effectively, I’m not really feeling the new launch … Continue reading →

Over at Sarah Lacy‘s place she’s reasonable asking “Is it Cuil or Us” in terms of expecting too much from this new search startup. Since I’d been poking fun at Cuil’s failure to find itself I thought I better … Continue reading →

Model of Olympic Village Apartments in Beijing Originally uploaded by JoeDuck It’s fun to start to see so much Beijing stuff on TV after just being there. The Travel Channel is playing Samantha Brown china visits and the news … Continue reading →

When Google bought Youtube for 1.6 billion last year they effectively allocated $400 million of the purchase price towards lawsuits they felt were coming down the pike. Although both the purchase price and that extraordinary “copyright payoff” of 400 … Continue reading →

WordPress is one of those amazing Web 2.0 companies that always impresses you with innovation and quality. Here, they have created a way to better index WordPress blog content using Google sitemaps. WordPres was was already the best CMS system … Continue reading →

Hasbro appears to have won a battle with Facebook application “Scrabulous” which has been wiped off of Facebook. One of the most popular applications on the massive Social Network, many thought Hasbro would buy Scrabulous from the two founders. That … Continue reading →

OK, I have a mild conspiracy hypothesis about Cuil that helps explain what I see as the glaring problems with this new entrant into the search landscape. I should say that I don’t know any of the founders so it’s … Continue reading →